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# Once They Bury Their Noses in Their Gadgets: how much better things were in the old days!
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kak-utknutsia-v-svoi-gadzhety-to-li-delo-ranshe/
- Published: 2021-09-01T20:27:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:40:35.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Observations, Humour

In the old days:

Portraits in the Countryside, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876

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